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With Christmas coming up my thoughts turned to the poinsettia plant that I received last January from St. Peter’s. Its time on the altar was over and we parishioners were invited to take the poinsettias home. Mine has spent all of spring, summer, and most of the fall on the front porch and is now an even bigger, better, bushier poinsettia, but, alas, quite green. It is now back in the house since we’ve had a couple of frosts.

How do I make it turn red for Christmas? Google knows, of course, and according to the experts my plant needs 12-13 hours of dark each night — total dark — apparently it would be good if I could turn off the moon. I started covering it at night with a big black plastic bag maybe two weeks ago and so far have forgotten the covering ritual at least twice. I don’t know what will happen with this lackadaisical approach but I’ll let you know.

Here is a picture of the poinsettia now. Tune in at Christmas-time for the results.